Community-Based Violence Prevention

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There's been a big push from players nationally starting from the early days of the Biden presidency. There are programs that demonstrate that they can reduce homicides by up to 60% in urban communities. But many of these have been badly underfunded or not funded at all. In Illinois, our state committed $250 million of COVID relief money to programs like this.

Policymakers across the country are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on “violence interruptor” programs to try to stop shootings before they happen. WBEZ’s Patrick Smith spent a year with some Chicago-based interruptors for the podcast “Motive.”

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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